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Recall those Iranian threats about having 29 sensitive US sites targetted? Did we ever learn any more about that? It had something to do with where we store our nuke weapons.
Being in California, I can assure you that I wont be terrorized, just given more incentive to do what needs to be done. (not everyone in Cali is a yellow-bellied sensitive Libral as you may think) Cheers!
from Mutter's: This seems VERY significant.
2004-12-19 17:02 * PAKISTAN * PRESIDENT * ISLAMIC RADICALS * PROTEST *
PAKISTANI RADICALS DEMAND RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF FROM THE POST OF SUPREME COMMANDER OF ARMED FORCES
ISLAMABAD, December 19 (RIA Novosti's Evgeny Pakhomov)
Pakistani Islamic radicals believe that President Pervez Musharraf will be responsible for the future political chaos and the collapse of the country if he refuses to resign from the post of the Supreme Commander of Pakistani Armed Forces by the end of 2004, announced leader of the alliance of six leading radical parties Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) Qazi Hussain Ahmad. He also stated that the alliance plans to organize mass meetings around the country.
Islamic radicals have already conducted a series of protests in a number of Pakistani cites. However, Mr. Ahmad stressed that this time the actions will be conducted on an even greater scale. The first protest action is scheduled for Sunday in a town of Ravalpindi, 25 kilometers from the capital, Islamabad.
In an interview published on Saturday by the leading Pakistani newspaper in Urdu language Daily Jang, Mr. Musharraf announced that he intended to keep his military post even after December 31.
In his opinion, he must remain the President and the Supreme Commander "to ensure stability and unity of the nation." In particular, Mr. Musharraf pointed out that his decision to keep both posts had been supported by more than 90% of the population.
In contrast, the radical MMA leaders believe that Mr. Musharraf's decision violates the provisions of the Pakistani constitution. "The General has time till December 31 to decide. The protest against the military rule in the country is growing day by day," Qazi Hussain Ahmad stated.
He said that MMA maintains ties with all oppositional forces in the country, including the Pakistani People's Party, led by exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and with the Pakistani Muslim League led by another former Prime Minister, Navaz Sharif, who had been recently released from jail.
General Pervez Musharraf came to power in the wake of a military coup in 1999. In 2002, Pakistan held parliamentary elections. However, Mr. Musharraf kept the posts of the President and the Supreme Commander, maintaining the right to dismiss the government and dissolve the parliament.
en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm...do_alert=0
courtesy of mutter's.
Now, how do you think this ties in with the "disappearance" of little Kim?
North Korea threatens to strengthen deterrent against US
(AFP)
20 December 2004
SEOUL
North Korea, which says it deserves nuclear weapons for self-defence, vowed Monday to strengthen its deterrent if the United States holds on to a “hostile” policy on the communist country.
A North Korean foreign ministry spokesman condemned the recent US legislation of a human rights law on North Korea as part of the US policy to bring down the communist regime.
Stalinist North Korea has been locked in a standoff with the United States and its allies for years over its nuclear weapons drive. Negotiations are deadlocked.
“If the United States... pursues its hostile policy to isolate and stifle (North Korea) under the pretext of the “nuclear issue’ and “human rights issue’... the latter will react to it by further increasing its self-defensive deterrent force,” the spokesman said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
“It is deplorable for the US to style itself an international ’judge of human rights,’ unaware of its position. By nature the US is the worst human rights graveyard in the world.”
The United States passed a law in October to “help promote human rights and freedom” in North Korea, according to a White House statement at the time. Pyongyang said the legislation aimed to topple the communist leadership.
Washington denies seeking to bring down the reclusive Pyongyang regime.
North Korea has been under growing pressure to return to multilateral negotiations on curbing its nuclear weapons drive.
The two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States have held three rounds of talks aimed at ending North Korea’s nuclear ambitions since the standoff erupted in October 2002.
North Korea boycotted a fourth round of the talks scheduled for Beijing in September, citing what it called the hostile US policy and other issues.
China, North Korea’s closest ally, has been trying to re-start the talks.
Rodong Sinmun, a newspaper published by North Korea’s ruling communist party, on Monday called for unity and consolidation under leader Kim Jong-Il in a renewed pledge to strengthen the country’s armed forces.
“It is... necessary to continue to strengthen the People’s Army, the driving force of the Songun (army-led) revolution,” Rodong said in an editorial carried by KCNA.
www.khaleejtimes.com/Disp...world&col=
Plus----Chinese troops are massed on the North Korean border.
THIS sounds REALLY bad....who is going to control those Paki nukes? Didn't the US have a plan to take control of the nukes if something like this were to take place? No wonder India had been on high alert- they must have gotten wind of this some time ago:
Islamists to mark Jan 1 as ‘black day’(PLOTTING TO DUMP MUSHARRAF)
Web posted at: 12/20/2004 1:47:3
Source ::: Reuters
ISLAMABAD:
Islamists vowed yesterday to resist plans by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to stay on as head of the army, breaking his pledge to quit the post by the end of the year.
Qazi Hussain Ahmed, a central leader of the opposition Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) Islamic alliance, said the Islamists would mark January 1 as a “black day” if Musharraf did not keep his promise.
“Musharraf has become a security risk for the country,” Hussain told a rain-soaked anti-government rally of about 5,000 people in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad.
“We will observe a black day on January 1 if Musharraf keeps the uniform of army chief,” Hussain told the crowd, who chanted “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) and “Down with Musharraf.”
Hussain said the Islamist alliance would meet on December 24 to announce its future plan of action.
The rally was part of the public campaign the alliance launched last month in an effort to force Musharraf to step down from his leadership of the army.
Analysts said the political temperature was likely to rise after Musharraf’s statement on a private television network on Saturday that he would stay on as army chief after December 31.
Musharraf pledged last year to shed his military uniform by the end of 2004 in return for support for constitutional changes validating his rule as president and giving him extensive power under a deal with an alliance of Islamist parties.
Parliament, where pro-military groups have a majority, passed a bill last month allowing Musharraf to keep the dual offices of president and army chief.
In the television interview Musharraf, who took power in a bloodless coup in 1999, also promised to tell Pakistanis within days why he had changed his mind.
He had previously signalled that he believed quitting as army chief would undermine Pakistan’s support for the U.S.-led war on terror and his efforts to make peace with India.
He has also said an overwhelming majority of Pakistanis want him to remain chief of the powerful military.
Musharraf also faces challenges from opposition groups, including the Pakistan People’s Party of self-exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
But political analysts said the protests were unlikely to pose a threat to Musharraf’s rule because the ruling party was pro-military, its allies had a parliamentary majority, and opposition groups were disorganised.
Political commentator Najam Sethi said Musharraf’s statement was not surprising and it was unclear if the opposition could unite enough to launch an effective challenge.
“The ball is now squarely in the opposition’s court,” he told Reuters. “Musharraf will keep his rule firm with support from the United States and the military, as there is no possibility of a mass uprising.”
Western countries have criticised Musharraf’s democratic credentials, but not too loudly because of his role in the US-led hunt for al Qaeda militants held responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States.
The military has ruled Pakistan for more than half the 57 years since independence from British colonial rule.
www.thepeninsulaqatar.com...201473.xml
Interesting jerseygirl, thanks.
I found the GG writeup intriguing....on a second reading, it sure reminded me of the style of "Aussie Bloke"....
Retired CIA Agent Claims Osama has 'Set the Stage' for Next Large Attack
www.trackingterrorism.com
In his latest audiotape pronouncement to the world, released Dec. 16 on an extremist Islamic website, Osama bin Laden largely shifted his attention from the U.S. to the Saudi royal family. He called its members "agents of infidels," praised the Dec. 6 attack on the U.S. consulate in Jidda and urged Muslims to support the insurgency in Iraq. According to one leading expert, the new tape was part of a change in emphasis in recent communications by the al-Qaeda leader and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri — an effort to speak as much to the Muslim world as to the U.S. and a paving of the theological way for what may be another major attack on the U.S.
Michael Scheuer, an al-Qaeda analyst who recently retired from the CIA and once headed its bin Laden unit, tells TIME he believes that in their series of recent messages and tapes, bin Laden and al-Zawahiri have been subtly addressing criticism from some Muslim clerics that the Sept. 11 attacks violated Islamic edicts against surprise attacks. "The Prophet's guidance," says Scheuer, "was always, Before you attack someone, warn them very clearly and offer them a chance to convert to Islam." He contends that bin Laden, by making his warnings very explicit, has "done everything that's required" so that, in his mind, "the criticisms he got after 9/11 won't be valid this time around." Adds Scheuer: "I think what he's done is clearly set the stage for a large attack."
Scheuer says he was particularly alarmed by the video of al-Zawahiri, aired Nov. 29 on the Arabic TV network al-Jazeera, in which he offered a "final piece of advice for America ... You must choose between two ways of behaving toward Muslims: either you deal with them on the basis of respect and mutual interest or you treat them as easy prey." Scheuer says, "What bothered me is he said this is the 'final' time we're going to raise this. I had not seen them ever before say, This is the end of this discussion we're having with you." If al-Zawahiri intended his message to be a last warning to the U.S., bin Laden's latest could be seen as a corollary shift in focus toward the Muslim world.
A U.S. intelligence official said all tapes by the two terrorists are "a matter that's taken very seriously, and their appearance causes concern." But the official stressed that the tapes could be interpreted several different ways. For his part, Scheuer concedes that he has no idea where or when an attack might occur. "I've been wrong too often trying to predict dates," he says.
I can't get the link to work. Says the document doesn't exist on that server.(?)
Make it a great one and stay warm up there in Canada!
I'm certain this should have been posted but we did talk about NH:
Threat to nuke plant revealed
PORTSMOUTH - Officials at both the state Bureau of Emergency Management and Seabrook Station say they are aware of intelligence information about an alleged Iranian plot to crash commercial airliners into the N.H. nuclear power plant. However, spokesmen for both organizations discounted those reports.
http://www.alipac.us/article-126--0-0.html
Radioactive water leaks from Czech Nuclear facility
Just west of you we got ice and then a dusting of snow...and we scrambled to get the woodstove fired up just in case the lines came down.
agreed,China,Russia,Cuba,Iran
Wow!
Winter.
No global warming/whinning for you!
Smiling...
exams went well?
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